Creator
Gertrude F. Jones
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[3]
My Husband is absent just now, were he have he would join me in sending warm and [illegible] regards to your self, & the G[illegible], should they still be in San Francisco – May we not hear [illegible] [illegible] [ from?] you and know about your plans? Yours Truly G[illegible] F [illegible]
00789
[1]
[Wellsville Allegany?] [illegible] [illegible] Saturday May 4th 1878
[in margin: 82]
Mr John Muir, Dear Sir,
I received yesterday, through the mail a photograph of yourself, and I wish to acknowledge it, and to assure you of the pleasure it gave me and that I am [sure?] also of Mr J’s gratification in p[illegible]ing it
[Page 2]
[2]
We think and speak often of our pleasant intercourse with yourself and Prof [ Ganger?], and we trust to [illegible] it sometime – Please do not forget that the foot hills of the Alleganies offer attractive [illegible] the Naturalist and the lover of the picturesque and also that you now [illegible] [illegible] th[illegible] as well. who would welcome you gladly – to their Home -
Location
Wellsville, Allegany Co., N[ew] Y[ork]
Date Original
1878 May 4
Source
Original letter dimensions: 14 x 28 cm.
Recommended Citation
Jones, Gertrude F., "Letter from Gertrude F. Jones to John Muir, 1878 May 4." (1878). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 418.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/418
Resource Identifier
muir03_0801-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0800
Collection Identifier
Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
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Owning Institution
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
